Stefan Hirsch

Stefan Hirsch (born March 7, 1975 in Vienna ) has been Chief Secretary for Communication and Strategy of the SPÖ since 2018 . Before that, he worked in the Gusenbauer, Faymann and Kern governments as press spokesman or office manager. From 2016 to 2017 he was Head of Communications for Defense and Sports Minister Hans Peter Doskozil . From 2014 to 2016, Hirsch was Office Manager of the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance and later in the Federal Chancellery, Sonja Steßl . In 2013 he was in charge of communications for the Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ ). Hirsch was also press spokesman for the Federal Minister for National Defense (later National Defense and Sport) Norbert Darabos (from 2007 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2013) and for Federal Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer (June to December 2008) . Before Hirsch became active in federal politics, he was the spokesperson for Renate Brauner, the Vienna City Councilor for Health and Welfare at the time . He studied communication science and political science in Vienna.

Publications

• "Winston Churchill: Personified Ambivalence", guest commentary in Die Presse on January 23, 2015
• “How about the new opposition?”, Guest commentary in Die Presse on December 27, 2013
• "The misunderstood chancellorship", guest commentary in Der Standard from August 8, 2008
• No discourse, little movement . In: Thomas Hofer , Barbara Tóth (Ed.): Election 2019. Strategies, Schnitzel, Scandals . Ecowin, Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7110-0254-9 , pp. 73 ff .
• A red election campaign through and through . In: Thomas Hofer , Barbara Tóth (ed.): Election 2013. Power, media, billionaires - analyzes of the National Council election . 2nd Edition. LIT , Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-50549-1 , p. 37 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Hirsch becomes the new SPÖ head of communications - SPÖ - tt.com
2. ^ Reunion in Löwelstrasse - SPÖ - derStandard.at
3. ↑ Hirsch becomes Steßl's head of cabinet - SPÖ - derStandard.at

Web links

• Photo gallery of the new executives in the defense division